Baptisms
Call Parish Office to make arrangements. Marriages
Marriage preparation is necessary before a date is set. Call for an appointment at least six months in advance. Confraternity of Catholic Doctrine
CCD is provided for K-8 students who do not attend St. Patrick School Sunday morning at 8:45-10:15 a.m. during the school year.
Knights of Columbus
Second and Fourth Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m., in the Parish Center. Summer meetings are the Second Tuesday at 7:00 p.m.
Altar & Rosary Society
Second Tuesday of the month at 6:30 p.m., in the Parish Center. No meetings in January, June, July or August.
Parish Membership - Please register by calling the Parish Office. Bulletin Deadline - Monday by 10:00 a.m. or earlier.
PARISH STAFF
Fr. Michael J. Hinterschied, Pastor
Deacon Dan Hann
Anna Harpold, Business Manager
Elizabeth Finke, Secretary
Debbie Adamczak, Parish School Principal
Polly Forde-Johnston, Director, St. Patrick Early Learning Center
Sandy Fryling, Director of Music PARISH/SCHOOL DIRECTORY Rectory and Parish Office
Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. (740) 852-0942 St. Patrick School
226 Elm Street, London, Ohio 43140 (740) 852-0161 St. Patrick Early Learning Center
& Latchkey Program (740) 490-7429 TO OUR VISITORS
Welcome! We pray your visit may be an opportunity to share in the Roman Catholic Faith. To receive more information about St. Patrick or if you desire to become a member of the Catholic Church, contact the parish office. All contributions to the parish are sincerely appreciated!
PARISH MINISTRIES/ORGANIZATIONS DIRECTORY Altar/Rosary Society Peggy Beathard, President (740) 506-0278
Cemetery Anna Harpold (740) 852-0942
Communion to the Sick Call Parish Office (740) 852-0942 Knights of Columbus Matt Grube, Grand Knight (740) 963-2563
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Parish Hall Reservations Call Parish Office (740) 852-0942
CCD Call Parish Office (740) 852-0942
RCIA Call Parish Office (740) 852-0942
School Advisory Board Heather Feliks, President (740) 852-0161
Por Información en Español Irma Arbogast (740) 852-2535 61 South Union Street, London, Ohio 43140
www.stpatricklondon.org A Parish of the Diocese of Columbus Most Rev. Robert J. Brennan, Bishop Fr. Michael J. Hinterschied, Pastor
MASS & PENANCE SCHEDULE
Sunday Masses:Saturday (Anticipatory): 5:00 p.m.; Sunday: 7:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. Daily Mass
Tuesday-Friday: 8:00 a.m. Wednesday at Church: 5:30 p.m.
First Friday: 5:30 p.m.; First Saturday: 9:00 a.m. Holy Days:
See bulletin or go to www.stpatricklondon.org. Sacrament of Penance:
Saturday: 4:30 p.m., Sunday: 7:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m.,
Thursday: 6:30 p.m., First Friday: 4:30 p.m., or by appointment Eucharistic Adoration:
Holy Hour, Thursday: 6:30-7:30 p.m. First Friday, 12:00-5:15 p.m. Sunday Rosary:
Our website: www.stpatricklondon.org
MASS SCHEDULE INTENTIONS OFFERED BY
Saturday (January 16) 5:00 p.m. Pedro del Angel † Irma Arbogast and Rick
Sunday (January 17) 7:30 a.m. Donnie Henry † Bailey Family
10:30 a.m. People of the Parish Father Hinterschied
Monday NO MASS
Tuesday NO MASS
Wednesday NO MASS
Thursday NO MASS
Friday NO MASS
Saturday (January 23) 5:00 p.m. Ana Maria Campos † Irma Arbogast
Sunday (January 24) 7:30 a.m. Sue Dunkley † Patty Evans
10:30 a.m. People of the Parish Father Hinterschied
OFFERTORY COLLECTION: January 10
Regular Collection $ 5,509.00
Ash Wednesday $ 20.00
Christmas $ 100.00
Maintenance $ 220.00
Solemnity of Mary $ 50.00
St. Patrick Total Offering $ 5,899.00 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Aid to Central and Eastern Europe $ 5.00
Black and Indian Missions $ 5.00
Catholic Times $ 10.00
Diocese of Mandeville $ 10.00
Propagation of the Faith $ 114.00
School Tuition Assistance Fund $ 2,225.00 Total Special Collections $ 2,369.00
Thank You!
Message from Father Hinterschied
For those who revere democracy, the only legitimate way to affect change is through the ballot box. Sometimes who or what one votes for wins, and other times loses.
The greatest division in our society today is between those who privilege truth, and those who prioritize power. There are those of all political persuasions who despise truth. And that is a flaw, to put it mildly. Because from Augustine to Einstein,i the glory of our civilization has been its relentless search for truth. And when love for truth falls, as Augustine got to witness with his own eyes, the fall of our civilization is not far behind.
Two thousand years ago, Christ stood at trial. He said, "For this I was born, and for this I came into the world, to bear witness to the truth." Pilate responded, "What is truth?" And that trial continues today. For over a millennium, we took the side of Christ by valuing truth above power; but I fear very much that we have more recently become the disciples of Pilate by valuing political power over truth.
The disconcerting displays across our nation both over the summer and over Christmas and Epiphany are the result of what happens when millions of people believe that they themselves are being deliberately locked out of a culture that is mismanaged by elites who brazenly make themselves richer as they grow poorer. In my priesthood, I've been privileged to meet Catholics from nearly every continent on earth, a credit to the Church and to our nation, and based upon my conversations with them, one thing that I have become extremely alert to is a similar degree of anger, contempt and disgust among them towards their own political classes for decades. May the lessons be learned by our fellow citizens.
May God bless America!
– Rev. Fr. Michael Hinterschied, Pastor, St. Patrick Church St. Patrick Early Learning Center – St. Patrick Preschool & Latchkey
is looking for a part-time aide. Must be 18 years old with a high school diploma to apply. Please email [email protected] or call 740-490-7429 for more information.
Foundations Restored: A Catholic Perspective on Origins – This presentation by Fr. Hinterschied continues Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. in Parish Hall. Check out the YouTube video on our website or in the January
Flocknote for more information!
Confirmation Retreat – The St. Patrick Confirmation Retreat is January 29-30 at St. Joseph’s Parish Recreation Center in Plain City. The retreat is held jointly with St. Joseph. NET Ministries (New Evangelization Team) will be leading the retreat Friday, January 29, from 6:30-9:30 p.m. and Saturday, January 30, from 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Mass will follow, and parents are invited to attend the Mass.
Red Cross Blood Drive – St. Patrick’s next Blood Drive is Friday, February 19, 2:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. at St. Patrick Parish Center. To schedule an appointment, call (800) RED CROSS, or visit redcrossblood.org, sponsor code: StPat. Give the gift of life by donating blood to the Red Cross. 9 Days for Life – Join thousands of Catholics nationwide in the annual Respect Life novena, 9 Days for Life, Thursday, January 21-Friday, January 29. Get daily intentions, brief reflections, and more. Sign up at 9daysforlife.com!
There will be No Daily Masses or Holy Hour Adoration
from Tuesday, January 19-Tuesday, January 26
Totus Tuus – (Totally yours) Mark your calendars, Totus Tuus is coming to St. Patrick on July 24-31, 2021.
Welcome Table – St. Patrick’s next Welcome Table is Thursday, January 21. If you would like to provide part of the meal, there is a sign-up sheet in the connecting hallway to the Parish Center. Thank you for continuing to help the less fortunate in our community!
2021 Catholic Men’s Conference – The 24th Annual Catholic Men’s Conference will be held February 27, 2021 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. This year, we have gathered another exciting group of speakers: Devin Schadt, Fr. Donald Calloway, Bishop Robert Brennan and Chris Stefanick. This is an event you don't want to miss! For more information on the conference or the Catholic Men's Ministry of the Columbus Diocese, please visit www.catholicmensministry.com or the St. Matthew website for more details and to register for the conference.
SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME JANUARY 17, 2021
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time January 17, 2021
COME AND SEE WHAT THE LORD HAS FOR YOU
Reflection on John 1:35-42
God does not seem to follow any pattern, protocol, or formula in making Himself known, or in calling individuals into relationship and gifting them for service. Over and over again, Scripture and countless stories in our tradition reveal that there is no predicting when God will come to us or how the visit might occur.
God can call the apprentice instead of the master, in the middle of the night while he is sleeping, as God did with Samuel. God can call an ordinary fellow out of a crowd of people at 4:00 in the afternoon, as God did with Andrew. Or two fisherman busy cleaning their nets, as with James and John. Or a tax collector hiding up a tree, as with Zacchaeus. Or an atheist walking down a crowded street in mid-town Manhattan, as with Thomas Merton. Or an old woman in her 70s, as with St. Mother Teresa.
“Come and see” – the invitation of Jesus we hear in today’s Gospel – can come to any of us, at any time, anywhere. When the invitation comes to you, even if you are, like Samuel, not yet familiar with the crazy ways of God, may you at least imitate his openness and innocent honesty by saying: “Here I am Lord. Speak, for your servant is listening.”
~ Fr. Jay
WEEKLY SCRIPTURE
Sunday, January 17
2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
1 Sm 3:3b-10, 19 Ps 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10 1 Cor 6:13c-15a, 17-20 Jn 1:35-42 Monday, January 18 Weekday Heb 5:1-10 Ps 110:1, 2, 3, 4 Mk 2:18-22 Tuesday, January 19 Weekday Heb 6:10-20 Ps 111:1-2, 4-5, 9 and 10c Mk 2:23-28 Wednesday, January 20
St. Fabian, Pope and Martyr; St. Sebastian, Martyr
Heb 7:1-3, 15-17 Ps 110:1, 2, 3, 4
Mk 3:1-6
Thursday, January 21
St. Agnes, Virgin and Martyr
Heb 7:25 – 8:6 Ps 40:7-8a, 8b-9, 10, 17 Mk 3:7-12 Friday, January 22 Weekday Heb 8:6-13 Ps 85:8 and 10, 11-12, 13-14 Mk 3:13-19 Saturday, January 23
St. Vincent, Decon and Martyr; St. Marianne Cope, Virgin; BVM
Heb 9:2-3, 11-14 Ps 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9
Mk 3:20-21 Access Daily Readings from the New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE) online at https://bible.usccb.org
SAINT MARIANNE COPE
Feast Day: January 23 • Patron Saint of Lepers, outcasts, those with HIV/AIDS, Hawaii
Marianne held the post of superior in several places and was twice the novice mistress of her congregation. A natural leader, three different times she was superior of St. Joseph’s Hospital in Syracuse, where she learned much that would be useful during her years in Hawaii.
Elected provincial in 1877, Mother Marianne was unanimously re-elected in 1881. Two years later the Hawaiian government was searching for someone to run the Kakaako Receiving Station for people suspected of having leprosy. More than 50 religious communities in the United States and Canada were asked. When the request was put to the Syracuse sisters, 35 of them volunteered immediately. On October 22, 1883, Mother Marianne and six other sisters left for Hawaii where they took charge of the Kakaako Receiving Station outside Honolulu; on the island of Maui they also opened a hospital and a school for girls.
In 1888, Mother Marianne and two sisters went to Molokai to open a home for “unprotected women and girls” there. The Hawaiian government was quite hesitant to send women for this difficult assignment; they need not have worried about Mother Marianne! On Molokai she took charge of the home that Saint Damien de Veuster had established for men and boys. Mother Marianne changed life on Molokai by introducing cleanliness, pride, and fun to the colony.
The government authorities were reluctant to allow Mother Marianne to be a mother on Molokai. Thirty years of dedication proved their fears unfounded.
God grants gifts regardless of human shortsightedness and allows those gifts to flower for the sake of the kingdom.
Read the full article: “Saint Marianne Cope.” Franciscan Media, Franciscan Friars, https://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-of-the-day/saint-marianne-cope (Accessed 30 Dec 2020).
furnace replacements in church sacristy and rectory repairs to sacristy and rectory basements office staff called all registered households during lockdown began weekly mailings to our homebound parishioners during lockdown won a $20,000 grant from Catholic Foundation for school acquired and received donated cleaning supplies related to COVID-19 received Paycheck Protection Program monies,
~ $199,000 salary raises for all pre-existing church and school employees surpassed our goal for the Bishop's Annual Appeal increases to online giving tuned church organ re-opened for public Masses on
Pentecost Sunday Preschool & SAC summer program reopened June 10th over twenty parishioners newly enrolled in the Brown Scapular of Mt. Carmel new school faculty: Miss Ball, 6-8 Science and 6-7 Math, (St. Patrick School alumna) Mr. Stone, 5th Grade, Mrs. Boeckl, 4th Grade School enrollment is 123
students K-8, including 8 new students and successfully returned to full-time, five days per week in person learning since August Outdoor Veterans Day display of parish/school family members Increased
interest in both School and Parish Facebook pages provided children Magnifikid! booklets for each Sunday Mass of the year church is now open daily for personal visits to the Blessed Sacrament distributed Blessed Palms outside and blessed nearly thirty homes on Easter Sunday alone complete new, custom-built confessional screen and seat/kneeler Confession opportunities during lock-down in Froning Center and rectory garage Solemn Latin Mass and outdoor Eucharistic Procession on Feast of Corpus Christi All Souls, Pentecost, and St. Patrick novenas prayed Altar & Rosary Society donation towards new vestments Benefactor donation towards a new chalice Tribute to Sacrament of Marriage
for month of February, sharing wedding photographs, and blessing received. New television and speakers in parlor to livestream both Christmas Eve Masses Respect Life month observed with collection for Lifepointe Family Center three young people joined Fr. Hinterschied on pilgrimage to National March for Life in Washington many joined in Madison County March for Life hosted Bishop Brennan for visits to the school, both prisons, and planting season blessings at Ewing's, Furbee's, Higgins/Meade, and Hann's family farms 5th grade girls Volleyball team were champions and went undefeated - 2nd year in a row
4th grade girls Volleyball team were champions and went undefeated participated in Rosary for our Nation at Madison County Courthouse and had four other outdoor Rosary events Knights of Columbus sponsored return of Red Cross Blood Drive to Parish Hall in October Calls were made to parishioners in spring resulting in some assistance being identified and met Successful First Communion Retreat and
First Confessions with The Sisters of the Children of Mary Successful First Holy Communions and Confirmations Socks for Seminarians drive resulted in care packages of socks, treats, and cards for over
100 seminarians Thanksgiving meals and Christmas Giving Tree donations were immense successes St. Vincent de Paul Society helped over 47 individuals that called and asked for assistance this year,
totaling over $2,800.00.
2 0 2 0 Y E A R I N R E V I E W
Epiphany House Blessing
The family gathers around the crib with lighted candles and recites the following prayers.
All: A Child is born in Bethlehem, alleluia! Full joyous sings Jerusalem, alleluia, alleluia! From Orient, behold the star, alleluia, And holy kings come from afar, alleluia alleluia!
The father reads the Gospel for the Feast of the Epiphany, St. Matthew 2:1-12
After the Gospel is read the following antiphon is recited.
All: From the East came the Magi to Bethlehem to adore the Lord; and opening their treasures, they offered costly gifts: gold to the Great King, incense to the true God, and myrrh as a symbol of His burial, alleluia!
After the above antiphon is recited, the father sprinkles the rooms of the house with Epiphany Water or Holy Water.The rest of the family recites the Canticle of Mary, the Magnificat. Make the Sign of the Cross as you begin the canticle.
The Magnificat
My soul + magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, because He has regarded the lowliness of his handmaid, for behold, henceforth all generations shall call me blessed, Because He who is mighty has done great things for me, [All bow at this phrase] and Holy is His Name; and His mercy is from generation to generation toward those who fear Him. He has shown might with His arm; He has scattered the proud in the conceit of their heart. He has put down the mighty from their thrones and has exalted the lowly. The hungry He has filled with good things and the rich He has sent away empty. He has given help to Israel his servant, mindful of His mercy as He promised our fathers toward Abraham and his descendants forever.[All bow] Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
All: From the East came the Magi to Bethlehem to adore the Lord; and opening their treasures, they offered costly gifts: gold to the Great King, incense to the true God, and myrrh as a symbol of His burial, alleluia!
Father: Many shall come from Saba.
All: Bearing gold and incense. Father: O Lord, hear my prayer.
All: And let my cry come unto Thee.
Father: Let us pray. O God who by the guidance of a star did this day reveal Thine Only-Begotten Son to the Gentiles, grant that we who know Thee by faith may be brought to the contemplation of the heavenly majesty. Through Christ our Lord.
All: Amen.
All: Be enlightened and shine forth, O Jerusalem, for thy light is come, and upon thee is risen the glory of the Lord, Jesus Christ, born of the Virgin Mary.
Father: Nations shall walk in thy light, and kings in the brilliance of thy rising.
All: And the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. Father: Let us pray. O Lord, Almighty God, bless this house that it may become a shelter of health, chastity, self-conquest, humility, goodness, mildness, obedience to the
Commandments, and thanksgiving to God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Upon this house and those who dwell herein may Thy blessing remain forever. Through Christ our Lord.
All: Amen.
With the blessed chalk, the lintels above the door are marked with the initials of the Three Kings and with crosses. We use the form below:
Father: Let us pray. O Lord God, through the power of the priest, Thou did bless this chalk to make it helpful to man. Grant that we who use it with faith and inscribe with it the names of Thy saints Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar upon the entrance of our homes, may through their merits and petition enjoy physical health and spiritual protection. Through Christ our Lord.
All: Amen.
The initials of the names of the Magi are inscribed separated by crosses and the year above the main door in this manner.
20 + C + M + B + 2
1
Sing the hymn, We Three Kings We three kings of Orient are Bearing gifts we traverse afar
Field and fountain, moor and mountain Following yonder star
Refrain: O Star of wonder, star of night Star with royal beauty bright
Westward leading, still proceeding Guide us to thy Perfect Light Born a King on Bethlehem’s plain Gold I bring to crown Him again King forever, ceasing never Over us all to reign
Frankincense to offer have I Incense owns a Deity nigh
Prayer and praising, all men raising Worship Him, God most high Myrrh is mine, its bitter perfume Breathes of life of gathering gloom Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying Sealed in the stone-cold tomb
Glorious now behold Him arise King and God and Sacrifice
Alleluia, Alleluia Earth to heav’n replies
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